When I was old enough to think about what I wanted to do in my life I was in my 40’s.

As a young, bushy haired ad agency Creative Director leading development of integrated multi-media campaigns, I learned that creativity needs the right strategy to boost the bottom line.

With that critical insight I found myself at RMR, a CRM tech company that was a front for a strategy company using technology to execute great thinking.

While creating and executing customer relationship strategies for major North American corporations, I discovered an affinity for structuring and optimizing operations, detailed financial modeling and leading the organization by enabling a collaborative, creative culture. I worked directly with clients as Chief Strategist and managed our company as COO. I also picked up enough “tech speak” to guide our burgeoning technology department in the development of software to deliver one-to-one data driven strategy.

Then the dot-bomb landed. Boom. When I contacted CEO’s to talk about CRM they wanted to talk about a new corporate strategy for a new world. So I helped them.

Which brings me to my 40’s. I became a full time strategy consultant working with a wide spectrum of recognizable names.

I’ve done speaking engagements, started-up businesses, ran a private equity firm, have begun writing a book called, Create The Conditions (that create the conditions) For Success, and continue to thoroughly enjoy my role as Chief Inquisitor of iQuest.

I work with companies to unlock their organizational talent, secure commitment, inspire courage and ignite passion; incessantly asking the hard questions to reveal core issues, discover game changing opportunities and guide them through successful execution.

I invite you to visit CreateTheConditions.com for articles and presentations you can apply at your company right now, follow me on SlideShare and Twitter, and join me on LinkedIn. I look forward to getting to know each other.

Sincerely,
Morry Patoka - Chief Inquisitor, iQuest